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CANADA. NATIONAL PRESS THEATRE

1975-0056

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1975-04-18

Press conference with the Honourable Eugen Whelan, Minister of Agriculture, and Mr. Parse of the Canadian Dairy Commission on the subject of the new federal farm income formula. There was no opening statement. Mr. Whelan fielded questions from the assembled journalists on the following subjects: agriculture, federal farm income formula, federal milk subsidy; consumer affairs, costs of milk price formula borne by consumer; agriculture, disadvantage of milk price formula to small dairy farmers; labour, COLA clauses within labour contracts; agriculture, difficulties in transfer of food surplus to international aid programs, structure of dairy subsidy program, dependence of farmers upon market system, egg import price system; consumer affairs, criticisms by Food Prices Review Board of federal poultry policy; agriculture, Dairy Farmers of Canada, farm response to federal milk price formula; Indians, contamination of fishing areas by mercury pollution. <30mn>

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